The United Fruit Company

When the trumpet soundedeverything was prepared on earth,and Jehovah gave the worldto Coca-Cola Inc., Anaconda,Ford Motors, and other corporations.The United Fruit Companyreserved for itself the most juicypiece, the central coast of my world,the delicate waist of America.

With the bloodthirsty fliescame the Fruit Company,amassed coffee and fruitin ships which put to sea likeoverloaded trays with the treasuresfrom our sunken lands.

Meanwhile the Indians fallinto the sugared depths of theharbors and are buried in themorning mists;a corpse rolls, a thing withoutname, a discarded number,a bunch of rotten fruitthrown on the garbage heap.